2000-2002 SUPREME COURT RULES COMMITTEES
REPORTS

The Supreme Court invites written comments on the 2000-2002
reports of the Supreme Court rules committees. In those reports, the committees
make numerous recommendations to the Supreme Court for rule amendments and
other non-rule administrative actions. The reports of the following committees
are published here for comment (in Acrobat PDF
format):

The 2000-2002 reports of the Special Civil Part Practice
Committee, the Committee on Minority Concerns, and the Committee on the Rules
of Evidence will be published separately at a later date. We also anticipate
receiving and publishing a supplemental 2000-2002 report from the Civil
Practice Committee in a subsequent issue.

Please send any comments on the Committees proposed
rule amendments and other recommendations by
Monday, April 15, 2002 to:

Comments on the Committee reports and recommendations may
also be submitted via Internet e-mail to the following address:
Comments.Mailbox@njcourts.gov.

The Supreme Court will not consider comments submitted
anonymously. Thus, those submitting comments by mail should include their name
and address (and those submitting comments by e-mail should include their name
and e-mail address). However, comments submitted in response to this Notice
will be maintained in confidence if the author specifically requests
confidentiality. In the absence of such a request, the authors identity
and his or her comments may be subject to public disclosure.

The Supreme Court will conduct a hearing on the
Committees reports and recommendations on or about April 30, 2002 at a
time and place to be announced in the future. We will publish further notices
concerning that hearing in subsequent issues of this legal newspaper. In
addition, we will be soliciting comments directly from bar associations and
other attorney groups. The Court will likely act on the reports in June 2002,
with any rule amendments likely to become effective September 1, 2002.